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spinning a cocoon mixed with grains of earth, usually 

 stout, thick- set, sluggish, and generally feeding on the 

 flat surface of the leaf. 



a. Feeding on ferns, 

 i. Body bare. 



Head ochreous, spinning a cocoon. Selandria 

 anal is. 



Head greenish with two blackish spots, not spinning 

 a cocoon. Strong ylog aster cingulatus. 



ii. Body covered with short hairs, head green, 

 without markings. Strong ylog aster delicatulus. 



I. Living in the rolled down leaves of the rose. 

 ]>l nnocampa pusilla. 



c. Covered with a slimy secretion, eating only the 

 upper epidermis. 



i. The secretion well developed and of a greenish 

 or blackish colour, feeding on fruit trees, limes, 

 birch, or hawthorn. Eriocampa adumbrata, E. annu- 

 Upes. 



ii. The secretion not well developed, and of a yel- 

 lowish colour, feeding on rose. Eriocampa canince 

 (fethiops, West.). 



d. Feeding on herbaceous plants or grasses, eating 

 along the edge of the leaf. Small and stumpy in shape. 

 I lh' nnocampa albipes. Selandria sixii. 



e. Feeding in the stems of plants. Poecilosoma 

 eandidatum, 



f. Feeding in the berries of gooseberries, in apples, 

 and plums. Hoplocampa fulvicornvs, H. testudinea. 



3. Greenish larvae covered with branched spines. 



<i. Spines green. Blennocampa alchemillce, B. longi- 

 cornis. 



b. Spines blackish. Blennocampa lineolata, B. me- 

 lititocepliala, Hoplocampa brevis. 



4. Blackish larvae without white markings, feeding 

 on cruciferous plants. Atlialia spinarum, A. glabri- 

 collis. 



5. Black with white dots, feeding on Scuttellaria. 

 Atlialia scutellarice. 



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